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Health Tip: Are Vitamin Supplements Worthwhile or Not?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- You may be wondering at this point whether to toss those vitamins into your mouth or into the trash. That's not surprising since several recent reports have called the value of vitamins into question, leaving ...





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Variant of vitamin D receptor gene linked to melanoma risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 22, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new analysis indicates an association between a gene involved in vitamin D metabolism and skin cancer. Published in the November 1, 2008 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study ...


Latest analysis confirms suboptimal vitamin D levels in millions of US children

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created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Millions of children in the United States between the ages of 1 and 11 may suffer from suboptimal levels of vitamin D, according to a large nationally representative study published in the November issue of Pediatrics, accomp ...


Vitamin use is highest in kids who don't need them

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created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A study by UC Davis researchers published in the February 2009 issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine has found that most of the healthy children and teenagers in the United States who are taking daily ...


Vitamin D's role in preventing asthma studied in pregnant women

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A group of pregnant women who have asthma or allergies will get extra vitamin D as part of a study to determine if the vitamin can prevent their children from developing asthma.


Low vitamin D levels explains most ESRD risk in African-Americans

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Low levels of vitamin D may account for nearly 60 percent of the elevated risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in African Americans, according to a report in the December Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (J ...


Physicians Explore Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Hypertension

Physicians Explore Link Between Vitamin D Deficiency and Hypertension

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created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drs. William White and Pooja Luthra at the University of Connecticut Health Center are investigating a possible link between vitamin D deficiency and high blood pressure.


New study links vitamin D deficiency to cardiovascular disease and death

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

While mothers have known that feeding their kids milk builds strong bones, a new study by researchers at the Heart Institute at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City suggests that Vitamin D contributes to a strong ...


Many middle-aged and older Americans not getting adequate nutrition

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created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Micronutrients such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and vitamin C play essential roles in maintaining health. As older adults tend to reduce their food intake as they age, there is concern that deficits in these micronutrients ...


Genetic link to vitamin A deficiency

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost half of UK women may be lacking an important source of vitamin A due to a previously undiscovered genetic variation, scientists at Newcastle University have found.


Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin ...



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